SO YOU are cautiously approaching a large wolf spider - terrifyingly large in fact - when your phone camera catches it glistening.

This is one special spider, right? Wrong.

This inquisitive camera man plucked up the courage to get close to one spider only for it to burst into hundreds of erratic little... euuurghhhh.

That strange twinkling of the light is actually thousands of EYES, watching and waiting for the gruesome moment their mummy spider unleashes them into the world.

Once free, they go wild, running all over the place at a terrifying pace.

The creepy video surfaced on Reddit today but to our dismay and horror it isn't a singularity - an eight-legged fringe event - the mysterious case of spiders exploding into spiders turns out to be not that mysterious... and not as rare as you might thing.